Wednesday, May 20, 2009

More Day 6- Church of the Nativity




the below pic is of the west bank- where a lot of the action happens

More Day 6


Refugee Child
House in the camp
I think this is the wall outside the camp

Day 6! Bethlehem and Palestein Refugee Camp

Small refugee child standing alone in an alley
the place where Jesus' Manger was

I'm really not sure what this is.... but the picture looked cool

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

and a few more from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Jeremy and the Greek Orthodox Partriarch



Jeremy in the throne of the Greek Orthodox Partriarch


More Day 5!


this is the stone Jesus was placed on and covered with oils and linen before he was placed in the tomb. The second picture is the shrine built over Jesus' tomb.


Day 5!


Church of the Holy Sepulchre door- the keys to the door are held by a Muslim Family



Church of the Holy Sepulchre (blt. 1885) The site is venerated by most Christians as Golgotha, the Hill of Calvary, where the New Testament says that Jesus was crucified,

Jeremy and his very own IDF girl (his XEVA from NCIS!)

Monday, May 18, 2009

More from Day 4

exact location of pond where jesus helped blind man to see

My dashingly Good looking hubby standing outside Hezekiah's Tunnel!




Pictures!

tunnel of Hezekiah

first recorded toilet

valley containing city of David

Arab home

city of David


Russian orthodox church of Mary Magdalen

Hebrew University

view into Jordan from Mt Scopes (notice the wall between the 2 cities- it runs the entire length of the west bank to separate the Arabs and Jews)

Mormon church in Jerusalem. Apparently the LDS's have a deal with Israel that they won't promote the Mormon faith and in exchange, are allowed to have a temple there.


this is the top of a mosque in old city near the city of David

these are Israeli soldiers, which all over Jerusalem

jaffa gate in the old city